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Blue Coat claims anti-phishing first
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Phishing

2007-10-08 19:51:05
The new real-time anti-phishing feature of Blue Coat ProxySG appliance is an industry first, the company claims.


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Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal team for anti-phish push
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Phishing

2007-10-03 15:47:05
Users of Yahoo! Mail should start to see fewer phishing attempts targeting their eBay and PayPal accounts.


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ZoneAlarm's ForceField protects browsers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2007-09-24 21:31:41
Security vendor Check Point is applying virtualisation technology to help protect web browsers from drive-by downloads and other threats.


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Watch out for the latest email phishing attacks
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-08-21 06:33:55
Arriving in inboxes around the world now are the latest email phishing attacks, socially engineered once again to appear legitimate to try and capture users, experienced or not, off guard – how do you protect yourself?

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Finally, anti “bot” technology is launched, and it’s from Norton
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-07-18 07:36:53
Norton AntiBot, from Symantec, promises to protect you from bots and remove ones that are already on your computer, along with other malware – how soon before competitors do the same and the bad guys try to find ways around it?


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FBI nabs two more over botnets
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-06-14 22:26:34
Another two botherders have been charged or arrested as a result of the US Department of Justice and FBI's 'Operation Bot Roast' aimed at curbing the operations of people running botnets.


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TrustDefender wins AIIA 2007 iAward
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2007-06-07 01:23:29
On demand endpoint security provider TrustDefender has won a 2007 iAward for its consumer and enterprise security software.


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Spammers, phishers threatened by DKIM standard
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Spam

2007-05-24 01:14:12
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a proposal for authenticating the source of email messages, has received preliminary backing from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that determines the protocols used on the Internet.


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Budget: $13.6m to beef up e -security for home and small business
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Policy & Regulation

2007-05-08 22:15:56
The Federal Budget has allocated $13.6 million over four years to help protect computers in homes and small businesses from online attacks.


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VeriSign builds security token into bank cards
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2007-05-02 03:20:24
Some banks are trying to improve online security by issuing customers with tokens that generate one-time passwords, but that's just another thing you have to carry around. VeriSign thinks it has found the answer: build the token into an otherwise normal credit or debit card.


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Hackers debut malware loaded USB ruse
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: The Register

2007-04-26 06:59:10

Malware purveyors deliberately left USB sticks loaded with a Trojan in a London car park in a bid to trick users into getting infected.


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TK Maxx 'should disclose hacking details'
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: ZDNet UK

2007-04-01 05:03:01
US discount retailer TJX, owner of UK retailer TK Maxx, revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that at least 45.7 million payment card details had been stolen by hackers.
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12 percent of UK net users are fraud victims
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-03-26 02:34:56
A UK government-backed survey has found 12 percent of adult internet users fell victim to some kind of online fraud during 2006.


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Microsoft probes alleged Xbox Live fraud
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2007-03-21 16:04:46
After months of complaints that Xbox Live accounts are being hijacked and associated credit card numbers used fraudulently to buy extra points, Microsoft is investigating.


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Stolen credit cards going cheap, says Symantec
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2007-03-20 01:26:08
Stolen credit cards are being sold on the Internet for as little as $US1, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report.


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Symantec: online crims want the money, no longer fame
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-03-19 11:36:07
Symantec’s latest ‘Internet Security Threat Report’ is conducted every 6 months, and they’ve just released the newest 11th edition with the most up-to-date data, with some startling discoveries.


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China displaces Britain as botnet epicentre
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: The Register

2007-03-19 08:06:12

China has displaced Britain as the home of the greatest concentration of compromised (zombie) PCs.


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IE7 phishing bug nets concern
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: The Register

2007-03-19 08:01:01

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7.0 that might lend itself towards the creation of more convincing phishing attacks.


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Mayhem for MySpace with Month of Bugs?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2007-03-18 13:58:53

Could a ‘whiny, attention-seeking ploy’ to show how bug-ridden MySpace is actually work to get News Corp to improve MySpace security and deliver the hackers worldwide infamy?


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Trojan phishing attack claims multiple victims
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch

Category: The Register

2007-02-23 06:14:23

Security watchers have discovered a string of malicious websites that install Trojan code, allowing hackers to compromise end-user banking credentials for more than 50 financial institutions and ecommerce websites.


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